Re: Packed Fromkey/Tokey Copy in CL

Hi Debbie,

This is actually pretty straightforward:

1) add a DCL statement:
        DCL    VAR(&QUOT)   TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(1) VALUE(X'7D')

2) use the &QUOT field wherever you want to have a single quote:
        CHGVAR   &LIT1    VALUE('x' *CAT &QUOT)
                (yields &LIT1 = x')

In general, wherever you have an oddball character that you want
to insert into a string, you can just define a field and assign it the hex
value of the character and then use the field wherever you need to.

(btw - I learned this trick back in my Wang Basic days, only there we
didn't use hex values we used ASCII equivalents. Same idea, and it's
one of the neatest tricks I know in any language!)

HTH,

Mike Naughton

MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com writes:
>Hello group,
>
>I have a question.  I am trying to do a fromkey/tokey file copy
>inside a CL where the file key is packed.  The key needs to look
>like this x'12345678901F'.    I am doing a RCVF in the cl in order
>to get the actual key value but am having trouble putting the string
>together.  Needing to have the single quote as part of the string is
>giving me problems.  I am trying to declare the 3 parts and then
>concatinate them like this:
>
>    DCL VAR(&LIT1) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(2)
>    DCL VAR(&NBR)  TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(11) VALUE('12345678901')
>    DCL VAR(&LIT2) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(2)
>
>    CHGVAR(&LIT1)     VALUE(  )    <====?
>    CHGVAR(&LIT2)     VALUE(  )    <====?
>    CHGVAR(&FROMKEY)  VALUE(&LIT1 *CAT &NBR *CAT &LIT2)
>
>The value of LIT1 needs to be x'.
>The value of LIT2 needs to be F'.
>How can I move these values in using the CHGVAR command?
>
>
>Debbie



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